Re: [MV] M37 Rough runner

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 20:21:24 PST


At 9:18 PM -0500 11/6/02, M37Jumbo@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 11/6/02 12:39:31 PM Central Standard Time,
>ditch68@bytehead.com writes:
>
><< I am unfamiliar with these trucks, but they sure seem mechanically
> simple, I just figure I'm missing something obvious. >>
> How many of us were initially sucked into this hobby by a thought very
>much like this one?

Crawl under a Daimler some time. When it comes time to lube and fill
things, I sometimes wish I had something simpler, 1 drive shaft per
wheel, 2 fluid levels per wheel, gearbox, transferbox, steering box,
totally separate torqye converter, solid underside, etc...

However neither one has let me down so perhaps I'm better off.

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Ryan Gill              rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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